This has to go down as one of the most badly written and directed BL dramas spewed out of Thailand in their latest…
Thanks for your brief but thorough review, JG. I almost always agree with your comments so I'm going to do myself a favor and not even start this one. Isn't it stunning how much $$$ is wasted putting together these horrible Thai productions with staples, a glue gun and duct tape? The vibe I get is that no one involved is even trying, beginning with the writers.
BTW, you write vividly and with a sense of humor I enjoy. Thanks for sharing your comments.
From reading a good number of comments, I'm going to assume this is just one more assembly line s**t-show from the Thailand BL factory and not even start it. Thank you to those below whose comments warned me off. I haven't enjoyed a Thai BL in many months. Badly written, acted and directed. It so often feels as though no one involved with the show is really trying to make something original and professional. Sad, seeing as Thailand started live-action BL as we no know it.
I feel cheated I didn't get to see Obachaan embrace him at the end.
A sweet, sentimental film with a good message but too predictable and a bit sappy for its own good. Nevertheless, I'm glad I saw it and would recommend it with the former in mind.
Hard to believe that masterful film was made for the paltry sum of what would today be about $165,000.00 U.S. Yet again we see that more important than ANYTHING else about a film is whether or not it has a warm, beating heart. Like Aumtumn Moon Cake's own heart, this one is made of pure gold.
Near-perfection. No, on second thought...perfection. 10/10
The current generation seemns to find all physical contact trangressive.Teens kissing is problemmatic only if…
I explained my thoughts on this matter very clearly. Think what you will. I don't care.
BTW, I know you're not interested in facts that might get in the way of your purity but, a "child" is defined as someone between the ages of birth and puberty. Most 13 year-olds have at least entered puberty and are thus no longer children. But you want to imply that a three year-old and a 13 year-old are the same, so you use the word "child" inaccurately to equate them. I don't play that game.
Let me try this (requires use of your brain so you might want to skip this): If I were out and about one evening and a handsome, charming young man came on to me, told me he was 18, appeared to BE 18, showed me a DL proving it, and we had a wild night of great sex, but in the morning I somehow discovered he had lied, the DL was fake, and he was 13 years old, would I lose sleep over it?
NO, I would not. I know you're hoping for guilt, shame, and trauma to follow but I don't care about that either.
The current generation seemns to find all physical contact trangressive.Teens kissing is problemmatic only if…
That's impossible to answer because I would have to be the exact same age, in the exact same profession, and in the exact same circumstances as he was at the time that happened. 2023 is a looooong way from 1970.
He was a closeted doctor, working in a small town, married with children and so was of course fighting his own demons, desires, and angst. No human under that kind of stress and frustration, is made of stone when confronted with a physically mature young man (I went through puberty early and had my full height and was fully developed sexually by the time I was 12, as were my two older brothers) laid out before him with his pants down for a physical. I just don't presume to judge him for that because I know the way the closet twists and distorts one's judgement and perspective. He was kind, gentle, and would have stopped in a heartbeat if I'd made any sign of resistance...I didn't. He deserves compassion.
Thinking this through again, perhaps a good way to summarize my feelings is that I simply don't find it necessary to judge/condemn this man. I actually have positive feelings about what happened and about him as a person. The experience was never repeated and I never saw him again. It's not like he stalked me afterward. It's an otherworldly few moments in time that I never looked back on with regret or stress. I'm glad it happened.
What pisses me off are people, many of them on this thread, who want people like me to feel shame, guilt, trauma, distress, etc. over what happened. Seems to me it's a very GOOD thing that the 13 year-old young man I was did NOT and does not have those feelings.
I haven't seen the series yet, so I don't know if it was just a drug-related issue. But in the manga, it happens…
LOTS of the usual suspects believed Amber Heard's every word the moment she spoke until the end of the trial. "Nobody" believed her? I must strongly disagree.
I’ve read the manga it’s based on and that’s not why Kazuma cried. Don’t read if you don’t want to know.He…
I felt the need to explain because you seemed to conflate a Manga and an adaptation as the same thing. Because one thing happened for THIS reason in a Manga does not mean it happened for the SAME reason in the adaptation, as you flatly stated to be the case.
The current generation seemns to find all physical contact trangressive.Teens kissing is problemmatic only if…
No, I'm not a victim. You don't get to decide that for me, so stuff your presumptuous judgmentalism and your alligator tears where it hurts.
You are EXACTLY the type of person I described above who wants to FORCE people to feel victimized, shamed, abused and traumatized after an experience like mine when nothing could be further from the truth. Luckily, your opinion means nothing to me.
Tell me: Is a two year-old "child" in the same category to you as a 13 year-old "child?" What about a newborn "child" and a 15 year-old "child?" All the same to you?
I first saw this film two and a half years ago somewhere online. It stuck with me and I've been wanting to watch it a second time for at least a year but couldn't find it anywhere. Tonight I did find it, and now I remember why it haunted me so. I have some questions, wish there was someone here to chat about the flick with.
Sid Lucero is as epic in this role as he is beautiful to look at. Emilio Garcia is his equal in the acting department and their chemistry is powerful to behold.
Not a joyful movie but to me an impactful one well worth watching. I will watch it a third time someday in the future.
The current generation seemns to find all physical contact trangressive.Teens kissing is problemmatic only if…
I'm not worried about fictional depictions of underage sex. lol They're FICTIONAL.
OK, well, I think people who are 15 and 25 who want to have sex are going to go right ahead and do so regardless of what the government says about it.
"Minors don't have the experience and perspective that adults have and are..." As I said there are plenty of moronic adults and mature 15 year olds. Arbitrary numbers pulled from the air by sex-phobic politicians are BS. And American society's increasingly demented demand that anyone who has sex under the age of 16 or 18 or whatever should be severely traumatized for life by it certainly causes far more harm than it prevents.
I had a consensual experience at 13 with a doctor likely around 40 years of age. One of the hottest sex memories of my life and I never regretted it for a minute. Never thought about it much, actually. Nowadays, if anyone found out, I'd be berated into pretending to feel shame and violation surrounding that experience and the 40 year-old would go to jail. For what? To me, a deeply positive part of the experience was knowing for sure I was not alone. Who else was offering that to me as I grew up gay/closeted/hating myself in 1970s Kansas? No one. lol
As I said, if someone has been forced, coerced, blackmailed, abused into having sex against their will we have laws against rape/sexual assault that cover that sort of thing. Statutory rape laws are panty-sniffer statutes for people far too focused on what other people are doing with their genitals. You disagree. That's fine.
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BTW, you write vividly and with a sense of humor I enjoy. Thanks for sharing your comments.
Thank you to those below whose comments warned me off.
I haven't enjoyed a Thai BL in many months. Badly written, acted and directed. It so often feels as though no one involved with the show is really trying to make something original and professional.
Sad, seeing as Thailand started live-action BL as we no know it.
This is the one of the dumbest plot concepts to ever exist.
Dropping after seven minutes.
Can't believe people watch this stuff.
This is the one of the dumbest plot concepts to ever exist.
Dropping after seven minutes.
Can't believe people watch this stuff.
This is the one of the dumbest plot concepts to ever exist.
Dropping after seven minutes.
Can't believe people watch this stuff.
A sweet, sentimental film with a good message but too predictable and a bit sappy for its own good. Nevertheless, I'm glad I saw it and would recommend it with the former in mind.
6.5/10
Near-perfection.
No, on second thought...perfection.
10/10
BRAVO
BTW, I know you're not interested in facts that might get in the way of your purity but, a "child" is defined as someone between the ages of birth and puberty. Most 13 year-olds have at least entered puberty and are thus no longer children. But you want to imply that a three year-old and a 13 year-old are the same, so you use the word "child" inaccurately to equate them. I don't play that game.
Let me try this (requires use of your brain so you might want to skip this): If I were out and about one evening and a handsome, charming young man came on to me, told me he was 18, appeared to BE 18, showed me a DL proving it, and we had a wild night of great sex, but in the morning I somehow discovered he had lied, the DL was fake, and he was 13 years old, would I lose sleep over it?
NO, I would not. I know you're hoping for guilt, shame, and trauma to follow but I don't care about that either.
He was a closeted doctor, working in a small town, married with children and so was of course fighting his own demons, desires, and angst. No human under that kind of stress and frustration, is made of stone when confronted with a physically mature young man (I went through puberty early and had my full height and was fully developed sexually by the time I was 12, as were my two older brothers) laid out before him with his pants down for a physical. I just don't presume to judge him for that because I know the way the closet twists and distorts one's judgement and perspective. He was kind, gentle, and would have stopped in a heartbeat if I'd made any sign of resistance...I didn't. He deserves compassion.
Thinking this through again, perhaps a good way to summarize my feelings is that I simply don't find it necessary to judge/condemn this man. I actually have positive feelings about what happened and about him as a person. The experience was never repeated and I never saw him again. It's not like he stalked me afterward. It's an otherworldly few moments in time that I never looked back on with regret or stress. I'm glad it happened.
What pisses me off are people, many of them on this thread, who want people like me to feel shame, guilt, trauma, distress, etc. over what happened. Seems to me it's a very GOOD thing that the 13 year-old young man I was did NOT and does not have those feelings.
If you don't get it, that's fine.
You are EXACTLY the type of person I described above who wants to FORCE people to feel victimized, shamed, abused and traumatized after an experience like mine when nothing could be further from the truth. Luckily, your opinion means nothing to me.
Tell me: Is a two year-old "child" in the same category to you as a 13 year-old "child?" What about a newborn "child" and a 15 year-old "child?" All the same to you?
Sid Lucero is as epic in this role as he is beautiful to look at. Emilio Garcia is his equal in the acting department and their chemistry is powerful to behold.
Not a joyful movie but to me an impactful one well worth watching. I will watch it a third time someday in the future.
9/10
Below is a link to where I found it online:
OK, well, I think people who are 15 and 25 who want to have sex are going to go right ahead and do so regardless of what the government says about it.
"Minors don't have the experience and perspective that adults have and are..." As I said there are plenty of moronic adults and mature 15 year olds. Arbitrary numbers pulled from the air by sex-phobic politicians are BS. And American society's increasingly demented demand that anyone who has sex under the age of 16 or 18 or whatever should be severely traumatized for life by it certainly causes far more harm than it prevents.
I had a consensual experience at 13 with a doctor likely around 40 years of age. One of the hottest sex memories of my life and I never regretted it for a minute. Never thought about it much, actually. Nowadays, if anyone found out, I'd be berated into pretending to feel shame and violation surrounding that experience and the 40 year-old would go to jail. For what? To me, a deeply positive part of the experience was knowing for sure I was not alone. Who else was offering that to me as I grew up gay/closeted/hating myself in 1970s Kansas? No one. lol
As I said, if someone has been forced, coerced, blackmailed, abused into having sex against their will we have laws against rape/sexual assault that cover that sort of thing. Statutory rape laws are panty-sniffer statutes for people far too focused on what other people are doing with their genitals. You disagree. That's fine.